Feb 15 2009
Finally, We have a good stimulus bill!
So, failed tax policies under eight years of George W. Bush causing an economic meltdown, and Congress finally puts a stimulus bill together that benefits we the people and creates 3.5 million jobs - and the Republicans decided to vote against it across the board. Thank God there are at least three sane Republicans in the Senate who voted for it.
The Republicans are hold outs because they want more tax cuts. It’s those stupid policies of tax cuts that caused this problem in the first place. Tax cuts don’t work. Creating jobs does. So what if there are things in the bill that probably shouldn’t be. Chuck Schumer is right - most of us Americans really don’t care about a little bit of pork as long as we get some real legislation in there that does something for Americans.
There is money in there to build up the infrastructure of this country and to improve our healthcare system. I hear a lot of people complaining about the $300 million for the green-powered carts for our political leaders. Do they not realize that someone has to build them? Do you not think that $300 million going to our automakers isn’t somehow stimulating the economy? It keeps our auto workers in business and all the downstream businesses in business?
What about the creation of all those ‘green’ jobs by putting money in to alternative energies instead of that carbon busting oil industry? Anyone who is against this bill is either completely uninformed or just doing it because it’s Obama’s bill.
Well - when it turns out that this is the most successful stimulus package since the New Deal and FDR - we can turn to those idiot obstructionist GOPers and tell them - get lost! We don’t need your kind around these parts no more!
Thank You,
Sarah
I hope you’re right.. there are a lot of economists that think the bill came too late. I think, paired with Geithner’s announcement about the financial sector, that we’ll be alright. But I’m no economist.